the Book of the Debt safe. Its destruction would have involved financial disorder throughout France, and indeed over the world, and we must once more remark on the insane...

amendments engrafted by Lord Salisbury on the University Tests Abolition Bill ; the new test for tutors, the engagement "not to teach anything contrary to the divine authority...

T HE better half of the world has this week been saddened and the worse half enraged, by a detestable crime. M. Thiers on 'Monday found his troops within the enceinte,...

full possession of Faris, the Chaumont Buttes and Belleville still holding out, and the soldiers were behaving as if they had taken the city by storm. All quarter was refused to...

seem nearly delirious, and that stories like nightmare dreams are afloat, and if true, or if even believed by the soldiers, would account for any reprisals. It is affirmed...

case.

by Favonius, a horse belonging to Baron Rothschild, which previously had not been the favourite. The victory delighted the Baron, who always runs a horse, but has never before...

Daniel O'Connell. He delivered a speech at Limerick, on Thursday week, in which he demanded something which he said was not Repeal, but which is difficult to distinguish from...

in our last number, is not to be brought forward till the 12th of June, before which date the Treaty, as ratified by the American Senate, will probably have reached this...

the capture of Paris- which have reached England, one trace or glimpse of the .policy to be ultimately pursued. It is reported that M. Thiers returns. at once to Paris, that...

summary of the settlement agreed upon as to the Alabama dis- pute, which we described to our readers a fortnight ago. In relation to the fisheries, the Treaty gives to the...

London. Taking the usual census limit, a circle round Charing Cross with a radius of six miles, London had in 1861 a population of 2,803,989. In 1871 the population is...

by a majority of 50 to 12 votes, and the British Com- missioners, Lord De Grey and Sir Stafford Northcote with Lord Tenterden, and the American Minister to England, General...

to the Government plan is whittling away Mr. Gladstone's majorities until, in the last division on Thursday, an amendment moved by Sir W. Russell was defeated only by 170 to...

satisfaction with the fisheries part of the Treaty as Mr. Sumner has expressed with that which regulates the Alabama claims. He has opposed it before the Committee of the...

before the House which the Government were determined to pass, or in Parliamentary phrase, that they would "obtain the definitive judgment of the House upon the Army Regulation...

explained the course taken by the German Government in answer to the claim put in by England for indemnification for six English, colliers sunk in the Seine in December last....

jury guilty of the so-called " Eltham murder" (the murder of Jane Maria Clon- sen, a former domestic servant in his father's house) ; i.e., 16 out of the 22 jurymen empanelled...

'teographical Society, and Sir Henry Rawlinson has been elected his successor. Sir Roderick has been for thirty rare connected -with the society, and eighteen years its...

days,' -during which, according to the popular superstition, stray dogs are universally supposed to be mad, simply because they have lost -their way, and all dogs found with...

to redeem his lost popularity with the frequenters of the parks by justi- fying their insane terrors, and promises a further Bill, "intended to abate the nuisance which arises...

tion at the Lambeth police-court on a most extraordinary series of charges. The theory of the prosecution, which has been in- stituted on behalf of the Treasury, is that this...

147,000 persons are employed by firms who keep shops and insist in one way or another that their men shall deal at them, and who, as a rule, cheat the men in the price of the...

Sunday, a fine sermon on the death of Sir John Herschel, which we trust he will publish. He took for his text the Hebrew account of the origin of the heavens, and applied it to...

[This paper, we need scarcely say, was substantially written before the destruction of the public buildings of Paris; but we, nevertheless, let it stand. That great crime is no...

O NLY Jeremiah, only the Prophet of Woe, the poet who sang of the coming destruction of Jerusalem in strains which have ever since been used by mankind to express a horror...

made another great blunder. What is it that leads a statesman and orator of his acknowledged ability and intellectual calibre,—a politician with as much of the art of appealing...

T HE constitutional question raised in the House of Lords on Monday night as to the right of Parliament to give an opinion on our Treaties before their ratification, and with a...

AI R. GLADSTONE'S announcement of Tuesday, that he would press on the Army Bill and the Ballot Bill "without any reference whatever to time" was not made a day too soon. The...

T HE general grief and horror with which the news of the devastation of Paris in this fratricidal war has been received, the consternation with which Englishmen and Frenchmen...

one thing capable of disgusting the heartiest Radical with the principle of popular election, it is a contest for one of those Church-of-England livings — fortu- nately but...

talking as loudly as he 11( can about the Tichborne case, and it is a little hard that the journalists should, under the new etiquette which has established itself among us,...

A FRENCH PRETENDER. [TO THE Eprros OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Having read the article in your columns of the 20th inst. headed "The Chances of the Comte de Chambord," and as...

SOMEWHA.T singular literary phenomenon occurred last week. For the first time that we can remember, some singularly ill-written prose was by mistake printed by Punch in lines...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 think you have, unwittingly, done a large number of teetotallers an injustice in your last issue. It is true that the Permissive Bill owes its...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE first impression produced on entering the galleries of the Royal Academy is a pleasurable one, as of rooms well and even sumptuously furnished. The...

[To rim Roam or TEE "SrEarAroa.1 read with very great interest the letter from Mr. Thomas Hughes on American ecclesiastical affairs which appeared in your last number. Of...

MR. PALGRAVE'S POEMS.* Mn. PALGRAVE belongs to the Oxford school of student-poets, both in fact and in the character of his poetry. The fibre of -thought is almost always...

WILL this book put an end to the "Junius" controversy? The- chances are that it will not. Writers will always be found to- whom such a bone of contention is too precious to be...

IT is pleasant, in the midst of the heap of maudlin sentiment, attenuated incident, and rechauffeof passion which form the staple of so large a portion of modern romance, to...

A BOOK upon the state of the poor with Professor Fawcett's name on the title-page will be sure to be read far and wide. We opened its pages with some eagerness, and rise from...

hit. FITZ-HUGH LUDLOW'S work deserves a longer life than com- monly falls to the lot of books of travel. It is, in fact, remark- ably interesting and attractive. Mr. Ludlow...

has devoted his attention mainly to the subject of Egyptian antiquities, and is favourably known for the soberness and discrimination he has exhibited in a pursuit which seems...

and Daddy.) —We can only hope that there is a public among which Mr. Bartley will find a sufficient demand for his book to repay him for the labour which he must have spent upon...

The History and Literature of the Israelites. By C. and A. de Roths- child. 2 vols. (Longmans.)—The accomplished authors of these volumes are right in claiming a certain novelty...

as set forth by St Paul in his Letter to the Romans. By J. H. Latham, M.A. (Longmans.)—Mr. Latham's reviews of various theories, of philosophy, the "Positive," the...

we imagine, has accused his own age of the auri sacra fames; more than one has suggested by the same ironical language a contrast between it and the better days to which the...

Daldy.) — Marlette is described on the title-page as "a sequel to Marie." Of "Marie" we have unfortunately no remembrance; and the volume before us possibly loses something of...

the Crimea during part of the campaign of the allied armies, and wrote an account of his experiences. This account he has handed about in MS. till, the document being about to...

the autumn of 1869 was called. It was said that no one employed a more -effective eloquence ; and we turn with interest to this volume to see how tar it justifies this...

Mrs. George Skelton. (W. H. Allen.)—A prescient shudder went through us as we read the title of this novel, and the first chapter confirmed our fears. 'The stern Lady Upton...